Trygve Laugstøl
Consultant at Sweetzpot
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolTrygve Laugstøl is a seasoned consultant and engineering leader based in Oslo with 22 years of experience spanning embedded systems, backend tooling and product leadership. He co-founded and led multiple tech ventures (Trygvis IO, Fiken, Sweetzpot) and currently serves as CTO at Vimscore while consulting through Scienta, bringing both hands-on coding and strategic product insight. A long-time Apache contributor, Trygve has deep experience improving developer tooling—most notably on Maven plugins—and has contributed practical features to widely used open-source projects like hledger and the ESP8266 RTOS SDK. His work combines low-level embedded fixes (heap management, FreeRTOS integration) with higher-level build and import tooling (CSV rules, compiler forking), showing a rare full-stack fluency. Colleagues value him for shipping robust, pragmatic solutions and for insisting on transparency in engagements (he asks recruiters to disclose clients upfront).
22 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Oslo
English
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Github Skills (40)
debug10
csv-parse10
postgresql10
plugin-development10
freertos10
memory-management10
maven-plugin10
c1110
java10
esp826610
c1710
javas10
iot10
compiler-design10
sys10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
apache/maven-plugins
May 2004 - Jul 2006
Mirror of Apache Maven plugins
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:165 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Trygve primarily contributed to the development of Maven plugins, which involved writing Java code and modifying existing plugin functionalities. They added new features, such as the "install" mojo, and improved existing ones. Furthermore, they addressed issues by making modifications to existing plugin code and adding missing files. These changes suggest a focus on improving the Maven plugins' capabilities and resolving functional issues.
maven-pluginmaven-pluginsmavenapachejava
apache/maven-scm
Jul 2004 - Jul 2005
Apache Maven SCM (Plugin)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Trygve primarily focused on refactoring and improving the API and related code in the Apache Maven SCM (Plugin) repository. They made changes to exception handling, refactored command classes, and updated the build process by adding a Maven 2 pom. The user also updated the existing commands to be compatible with the latest API changes. These updates involved modifications to several files, including the API, command, and test files.
maven-pluginsmavenapachescmjava
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